A few old Cripple Creeks

Bob Cargill is the man behind the Cripple Creek Knife Brand. He started out making one of a kind custom knives and eventually started making special order runs by hand under the Cripple Creek name in 1981. He specialized in high quality hand made limited runs for clubs and organizations. The brand was later sold to Blackjack Knives of Effingham, IL who commissioned Queen Cutlery to produce them in larger quantities.
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::super_happy:: Only one I own is the soddy all the others I only own the pics lol!! :oops:
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Fine knives being shown. Them pearls are super.
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That has got to be the sweetest set of the ten Indians around. Are they all the same year?
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Nice group. I love Cripple Creek knives. I had a large collection and had to sell them off due to an illness, but I am back up to about 30 again. I have 6-7 hard to find pearls.
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Here are a few nice stag Cripple Creeks from my collection. Sorry for the blurry pic. This was taken a few years back.
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Nice collection. PM sent.
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Here are a couple of early Buffalo Skinners. One has a large etch on the blade and the other a smaller etch. Always wondered if there was any significance between the large and small etch?
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A few more.

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This displayed was broken by UPS enroute to my home.
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Here is the only Cripple Creek in my collection from 1985

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Nice one Mike, I really like the match-strike nail pulls that CCC used.
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Here's one I added to the collection a while back. The only waterfall Cripple Creek I have. Not sure if he made alot with waterfall handles.
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bkazz5 wrote:I’ve been collecting Cripple Creeks for a while and thought I would revive this forum. Here are a few pictures to get us started. Let me see some other pictures or share some other stories about your Cripple Creeks.
Man all I can say is WoW,very nice.
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Here's a few more that I was fortunate to find. The straight knife with Micarta handles is the first I've ever seen. I don't believe that the sheath is original to the knife. The pearl gunstock is a 1981 Cargill AECA knife. Great pearl, half stops, and solid knife all around. The copperhead is just a nice stag knife. I don't see a lot of cripple creek copperheads. Finally a nice strawberry bone banana trapper.
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"I don't believe that the sheath is original to the knife."

Has Cargill tooled on it. Why do you think it's not original to the knife? Educate me.
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Just a guess on my part. I am not aware that any Cargill or Cripple Creek knives came with sheaths. There are folks that frequent AAPK that know more about Cargills than I do. Hope they will chime in. I hope I'm wrong and this is an original sheath.
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I can't help answer your sheath questions, but I can comment about the knives. Those are awesome!!
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Here's one I've recently added to the collection. A Cargill pearl lock back whittler. Like to see some others.
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:shock: That is a beautiful whittler ::drool::

Can we see it opened up?

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Sure. Can't do it now but by this time tommorow.
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Got to it a little quicker than I thought.
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Great...now there is something else i want ::doh::

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Here's a set of Blood Brother Barlows I feel fortunate to have. Made 200 sets in 1984.
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Very nice barlows ::tu::

Here's my only.............


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Very nice. There was a set of 4 Wounded Knee Barlows, unfortunatley I do not have any of them. They came in a wooden wheel.
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